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OPTRONIX-2020 CONFERENCE Organized by - UEM, Kolkata, Proceedings by - Springer ONLINE MODE / VIRTUAL CONFERENCE Dates : 8 - 10 June, 2020.

Business Administration Department of UEM Kolkata is proud to host Mr. Mussarat Hussain, Head-Learning and Functional School, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, 2nd May, 4:00-6:00 pm IST.

A session by Prof. Partha Pratim Bakshi, Proctor and HOD of BHM department of University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Kolkata on "Life Beyond COVID'19 & Opportunities" from 7pm today i.e. on 1st May 2020.

Respected Sir/Madam, We are happy to announce that University of Engineering & Management, Kolkata (IEM-Group) is organizing the online International Physics Olympiad (UEMPhO-2020) in association with CodeChef and SMARTu (Society for Makers, Artists, Researchers and Technologists, USA) on 22nd March 2020. We request you to encourage each and every student to register in UEMPhO-2020. The registration link is: https://www.codechef.com/UEMP2020 Facebook  page link: https://www.facebook.com/UEMPhO-18-842435185927181/ Please do the needful formalities in this regard. Thanking you, Prof. (Dr.) Kartik Sau HOD, Basic Science and Humanities Department

Are you looking for doing something Fun, Innovation & Experiment with Food?? Then IIIHM is offering & inviting all of you to join hands on Workshop on various innovative receipies tomorrow in BHM kitchen Lab.

UEM Kolkata ACM Student Chapter Presents, Distinguished Speaker Program On Boeing 737 MAX: Money, Machines, And Morals In Conflict: By Dr. Brian A. Barsky, Professor, University of California, Berkeley   DATE AND TIME OF THE EVENT: 21 st February, 10 AM IST VENUE: B3 FICCI Auditorium, UEM Kolkata   BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF THE SPEAKER: Brian A. Barsky is Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley, USA where he is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and VisionScience, and Affiliate Professor Emeritus of Optometry. He is also a member of the Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, an interdisciplinary and inter-campus program, between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco and he is affiliated with the Berkeley Center for New Media, Berkeley Institute of Design, and ArtsResearch Center. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (F.A.A.O)and a Warren and Marjorie Minner Faculty Fellow in Engineering Ethics andProfessional/Social Responsibility and an ACM Distinguished Speaker. He holds degrees from McGill University, Cornell University, and the University of Utah. Professor Barsky has co-authored technical articles in the broad areas of computer-aided geometric design and modeling, interactive three-dimensional computer graphics, visualization in scientific computing, computer aided cornea and visualization, medical imaging, and virtual environments for surgical simulation. Heis also a co-author of the book An Introduction to Splines for Use in computer graphics and Geometric Modeling, co-editor of the book Making Them Move: Mechanics, Control, and Animation of Articulated Figures, and author of the book Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling Using Beta-splines. Professor Barskyalso held visiting positions in numerous universities of European and Asian countries. He is also a speaker at many international meetings, an editor for technical journal and book series in computer graphics and geometric modelling, and a recipient of an IBM Faculty Development Award and a National ScienceFoundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. Further information about professor Barsky can be found at  http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~barsky/biog.html ABOUT THE TOPIC: The Boeing 737 MAX aircraft has been grounded worldwide after two fatal crashes with similar characteristics within five months of each other. Lion Air JT610Crashed 13 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta on Tuesday 9 October 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines ET 302 crashed 6 minutes after takeoff from Addis Abba in Ethiopia on Sunday 10 March 2019. In both incidents, pilots could not control the aircraft shortly after takeoff, resulting in tragic crashes with no survivors. Even after the second crash, the U.S. FAA did not ground the airplane for many days, well after the rest of the world had already done so. In its effort to compete with AirbusA320 Neo, instead of designing a new aircraft, Boeing devised a low-cost alternative based on modifying its 50-year old 737 design. The newer high-bypass turbofan engines were too large to fit under the wing of the low-to-the-ground 737design; thus, the MAX design moved the engines forward and up from the position on previous 737 models, but that created destabilization with a tendency to pitch up. To mitigate this, Boeing created a computer software system called MCAS(Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System) that takes over control of the airplane from the pilots and pushes the nose down, based on data input from a single sensor. Erroneous data from the single sensor invoked MCAS in both crashes. Due to concerns about financial losses, there is corporate pressure to resume the use of the 737 MAX for commercial passenger flight as soon as possible, notwithstanding continued safety concerns. Some argue that the 737 MAXshould never be allowed to carry the flying public again and that it cannot be fixed because it is not merely a software issue, but stems from an inherently unstable airframe design. Examination of the many factors that led to these disastrous consequences illuminates disquieting ethical issues of corporate behavior and lack of government oversight. For the time ever, civil aviation authorities around the world may not allow ithe 737 MAX into their airspace even if the U.S. FAA deems it to be airworthy. A careful deep analysis reveals many issues that have critically important lessons for all engineers who do or will work for large corporations or government organizations. This raises serious issues while computer science hurtles at breakneck speed towards increased automation of vehicles. The lecture will include first-hand information about the first of the two crashes from the speaker's meeting in Jakarta with the head of the accident investigation committee there. The speaker is Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley where he is a Warren and Marjorie Minner Faculty Fellow in Engineering Ethics and Professional and Social Responsibility.

IIIHM, Hotel Management Department of UEM Kolkata is going to organize a Mocktail Making Workshop on 7th February 2020 from 3 pm onwards in the university campus. Two famous sommelier from The Park Hotel Kolkata will come & conduct the workshop.

_Let the war of Robots begin._ University of Engineering and Management Kolkata is hosting *Robotics* as a part of its 3rd Techno-Management Fiesta *URECKON 2020* on *15-16 February'20* at University campus. Events like *Robo League, Robo Dangal, Dirrecion, Hold the Grip* and *Need for Torque* encourages students to have fun while learning principles of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Students design, Construct and Program the robots. Any Robotics kits are allowed in the construction of robots and can be programmed with any programming language. Register now at: For more details log in to www.ureckon.org Contact: Jiten: 9874585329 Tathagata: 9477583958 Soumyajit: 7003023457